A Comprehensive Dataset for Human vs. AI Generated Image Detection
On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing
Abstract (arXiv)
Multimodal generative AI systems like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and MidJourney have fundamentally changed how synthetic images are created. These tools drive innovation but also enable the spread of misleading content, false information, and manipulated media. As generated images become harder to distinguish from photographs, detecting them has become an urgent priority. To combat this challenge, we release MS COCOAI, a novel dataset for AI generated image detection consisting of 96000 real and synthetic datapoints, built using the MS COCO dataset. To generate synthetic images, we use five generators: Stable Diffusion 3, Stable Diffusion 2.1, SDXL, DALL-E 3, and MidJourney v6. Based on the dataset, we propose two tasks: (1) classifying images as real or generated, and (2) identifying which model produced a given synthetic image. The dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Rajarshi-Roy-research/Defactify_Image_Dataset.
Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 13 of its 19 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 2 Jan 2026.
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- 2023Intriguing properties of synthetic images: from generative adversarial networks to diffusion models13 Apr
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- 2026NAU-QMUL: Utilizing BERT and CLIP for Multi-modal AI-Generated Image Detection27 Feb 2026
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